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21. Calf of Man. S. S. W. till midnight. dous hurricane ; wind commenced 



Lighthouse. about 4, P. M., W. S. W., having been 



22 Liverpool. Changed from S. S. E., with S. S. E. in morning. The clouds came 



a calm, to S. W., between 11 and 12 ; fast from W. S. W. before the wind 



strong before change, violent after. commenced. 



(Times of 13th.) 31. Cork. Westerly at 8, P. M., and very 



23. Swansea. Changed in the night from strong at 9. 



east of S. to S. VV. 32. Waterford. S. W. early in evening. 



24. Plymouth. S. W. till 12, strong. 33. Ship Doterel, at Kings'on, near Dublin. 



25. Strangford. W. S. W. at midnight. (S. Fresh gales, and cloudy j S. W. at 8, 



M. G. of llth.) P.M. 



26. Londonderry. N. W. at 11, P. M. (S. 34. Ship Doterel, on her way to Liverpool. 



M. G. of llth.) Heavy gales and thick rain, S. W. 



27. Sligo. W. N. VV. in the night. from 10 till 2, then W. S. W., a hurri- 



28. Newport. W. N. W., in the night a hur- cane. Very hard gale still between 6 



ricane. (S. M. G. of 10th.) nnd 8, of 7th. W. N. W. 



29. Kilrush. At 10, P. M., a complete gale 35. Central line of the storm at 11, P. M., of 



from the west, increasing till 1, A.M., 6th. This central line moved towards 



then violent W. S. W. Wm. Monday. the E. or S. E. On next day the wind 



30. Adare, near Limerick. Clear, and heavy was westerly all over the British Isl- 



gale from the westward at 9, P. M. ands, N. VV. in Scotland, and S. W. in 



increasing till midnight, then tremen- the south of England. 



At this same time, the wind in some parts of the west of 

 England, at Liverpool, for instance, suddenly ceased to 

 blow from the south of east, and after a short calm, came out 

 westwardly, with unspeakable fury. At this time also, the 

 barometer was falling very rapidly, and though it was clear 

 in the west of Ireland, immense quantities of rain were 

 falling near the middle of Great Britain and Ireland. The 

 barometer, however, began to rise in the western parts of 

 Ireland, while it was yet falling with great rapidity in Eng- 

 land, and its greatest depression at London did not take 

 place till many hours after it occurred in Ireland and even 

 in Scotland. 



In one place, however, where the island is very narrow, 

 the lowest depression of the barometer seerns to have taken 

 place at the same time on the east and west coast at Edin- 

 burgh and Glasgow ; and it is worthy of particular remark, 

 that it was in this region, where peculiarly large quantities 

 of snow and rain had been falling for two or three days. 

 And this seems to account for the gathering in of the winds 

 on the 6th towards this region, both from the south east 

 and north west of Great Britain. It is true, that the wind 

 at several points on the eastern coast of Britain, was north 

 westerly on the morning of the 6th, and at the Fern Islands, 

 near the eastern coast, it blew a hurricane from the north 



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